Mr Victor's Daughter: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (January 15, 1950)

“Mr Victor's Daughter” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 15, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Richard Diamond is hired by newspaper magnate George Victor to protect his daughter Cathy from a frame-up orchestrated by crime boss Aaron Ziegler, who wants to stop Victor from exposing his numbers racket. Diamond must find Cathy and prevent Ziegler from planting narcotics on her before the newspaper's ten o'clock deadline.

New York City, including a newspaper office, the Nocturne Club, Chinatown, and a private establishment run by Fushin.

Characters: Richard Diamond, George Victor, Cathy Victor, Aaron Ziegler, Doug Saxon, Lieutenant Walt Levinson, Tony, Wu Li

Listen for: Diamond's wisecracks and banter throughout his investigation, the tense confrontation with Ziegler, and his final showdown with Saxon in Chinatown.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.